I used FireFox for a while. It was my 1st tabbed browser experience and
the plug-ins were nice. After some use, the program got heavy and slow
(much like IE). I've sinced switched to Avant
(http://www.avantbrowser.com /). It is an IE shell but has tabs and is
much faster. It also works well with pages that Firefox struggles with.
Todd

I used Firefox on my iBook for a while until I decided to switch back to
Safari which is Apple version of browser. Firefox seemed to slow down a
lot and crashed often when the animated banners, especially if more than
one, are playing. I cannot even use the mouse or keyboard while the
animated banners are playing. I had to switch to other programme in
order to use the force quit feature in Apple menu. I had to disable the
Java and JavaScript feature if I want to continue browsing. So far, I am
happy with Safari.
toddx wrote:

Part of the rage is that it puts the Open Source community back in the
browser market. I have nothing against commercial companies, but
commercial browsers are a scary thing. We've seen MS take an open
Internet and try to turn things so that you not only need an MS browser
but an MS Operating System to be able to visit most websites. That's a
bad thing for all of us, even MS Windows users (like me) because it
reinforces MS' monopoly.
I have noting against Opera, just never got 'round to using it, but I'll
try to avoid using IE. One big advantage of FF is the availability of
numerous extensions that allow me to turn off, for instance, flash
animations and animated gifs, so that I can visit websites without being
severely annoyed by rolling, jumping, moving and scrolling stuff. I love
that... :)
Ximinez

--
Our three weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...
and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope....

Well, as you might understand, nobody would be using it if it worked as
badly as you say. Perhaps these are specific problems with the Mac port.
I use FF as my primary browser under Windows & Linux and the only
problems I see, is not being able to open some IE specific pages, but
that's the sad reality with any non-MS browser. A freind of mine uses FF
on a Mac Mini and that seems to work very well.
Safari, BTW, is based on the open source khtml browser that was
developed for Linux/KDE.
Ximinez

--
Our three weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...
and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope....

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